00:00My name's Colin Wren, I'm from the Gold Coast and this is my oyster farm.
00:08We're up at North Stradbroke Island just off the Diablo Passage.
00:14This lease here is six hectares, we've got about probably 30,000 baskets in this oyster
00:21lease here.
00:22So we're probably growing about four million oysters all over our farms.
00:26We've got a farm down in Wallace Lake, we've got a farm up here in North Stradbroke Island
00:29and we've still got some more oyster leases down there at South Stradbroke Island also.
00:35The Queensland oyster industry has been struggling for a bit and there's been no innovation or
00:40anything like that.
00:41So we've come here, we've looked at the area and just went, I think we can make this work
00:45and yeah, we have created something pretty special here.
00:51We've got our wave suppression for starters, that protects our farm.
00:54If we didn't have the wave suppression here, there's no way we would be able to do our
00:58flip farm system and run our ZAPCO baskets and we also have floating pontoons in the
01:03area.
01:04We are the first people in Queensland to be doing the flip farm system.
01:09So far it's been really, really good for the business.
01:13I'm Andrew Robson, I'm the owner operator of Caringal Oysters on Moreton Island or Melgumpin.
01:18More so the president of the Queensland Oyster Growers Association for nearly a year now.
01:24Colin Wren from Gold Coast Oysters has been farming for a couple of years now.
01:28What he's done is basically establish or demonstrate the potential of the Queensland industry.
01:34So we haven't had a major change in the way oysters are farmed in Queensland for decades
01:40from the long lines and baskets.
01:42It's all happening.
01:45Right now we're about to flip our flip farm baskets and what it does is we can control
01:49the overcatch and all the barnacle when it all spawns.
01:54Ready to go?
01:59So we go along every four weeks, we flip the baskets over and we dry them out for, depending
02:04on the heat, two to five days at a time.
02:08And after three years of doing this every four weeks, what that creates is that we have
02:13a really clean oyster and it reduces our workload throughout the years.
02:20That's one of the holdbacks in the Queensland industry is the labour and the processing
02:25to control overcatch.
02:27With floating bag systems or flip bag systems, by just simply driving down the boat and flipping
02:32the bags every month, you're reducing the labour and again improving quality, growth time.
02:38So on this line here we've got 550 baskets and doing so we're able to flip our 550 baskets
02:48under 30 seconds.
02:49I hate the word, but it's a game changer for the industry and I think as a result of this,
02:56the industry will boom over the next decade.
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